With Chris Obi, Joseph Marcell, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Caroline Proust. | [91] Maxim listed Goodnight at fourth in their Top Bond Babes list, saying that "Agent Goodnight is the clumsiest spy alive. But while demonstrating the equipment, Scaramanga uses the solar-powered energy beam to destroy Bond's plane. At a Muay Thai boxing event the next day, Bond finds Anders sitting and staring silently, dead from a bullet to the heart. List of all cast members for program The Man with the Golden Gun. [41], One of the main stunts in the film consisted of stunt driver Loren “Bumps” Willert[44] (as James Bond) driving an AMC Hornet leaping a broken bridge and spinning around 360 degrees in mid-air about the longitudinal axis, doing an "aerial twist"; Willert successfully completed the jump on the first take,[38] and was given a $30,000 bonus on the spot. Man with the Gun is a 1955 black and white Western film starring Robert Mitchum.The film was released in the United Kingdom as The Trouble Shooter and is also sometimes entitled Deadly Peacemaker.The supporting cast includes Jan Sterling and Karen Sharpe.The film was written by N. B. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of The Man With The Golden Gun with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at TVGuide.com Francoise Therry: The Man with the Golden Gun. Featuring Toby Stephens and an All-Star cast airing tomorrow 14th March on BBC Radio 4 at 14:45. Find actors and director of the program The Man with the Golden Gun Director Guy Hamilton Full Cast. [47] Composer John Barry added a slide whistle sound effect over the stunt, which Broccoli kept in despite thinking that it "undercouped the stunt". [87] Peary believes that the shootout between Bond and Scaramanga in the funhouse "is the one good scene in the movie, and even it has an unsatisfying finish" and also bemoaned the presence of Clifton James, "unfortunately reprising his unfunny redneck sheriff from Live and Let Die. Lazenby's next Bond film, Saltzman told a reporter, would be either The Man with the Golden Gun or Diamonds Are Forever. "[81] Judith Crist of New York Magazine gave a positive review, saying "the scenery's grand, the lines nice and the gadgetry entertaining", also describing the production as a film that "capture[s] the free-wheeling, whooshing non-sense of early Fleming's fairy tale for grown-ups orientation". "[81] Thirkwell also said that Moore "manages to make even this reduced-voltage Bond a character with plenty of sparkle. Bond discovers Scaramanga driving off and steals an AMC Hornet from a showroom to give chase, coincidentally with the holidaying J.W. The script was written by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz. Posing as Scaramanga by showing off his fake third nipple, Bond is invited to dinner, but his plan backfires because unbeknown to him, Scaramanga himself is operating at Fat's estate. The list you're viewing is made up of actors like Christopher Lee and Roger Moore. Scaramanga subsequently kills Fat with his golden gun and assumes control of his empire and the Solex. [32] Christopher Lee, who was eventually chosen to portray Scaramanga, was Ian Fleming's step-cousin and Fleming had suggested Lee for the role of Dr. Julius No in the 1962 series opener Dr. No. [51] While an actual wax figure of Roger Moore was used, Moore's stunt double Les Crawford was the cowboy figure, and Ray Marione played the Al Capone figure. Saltzman sold his 50% stake in Eon Productions's parent company, Danjaq, LLC, to United Artists to alleviate his financial problems. Whilst profitable, the film is the 4th lowest-grossing in the series and its relatively modest returns by comparison with those of Live and Let Die (1973) reportedly placed the continuation of the franchise in jeopardy. Directed by Guy Hamilton. The Man With the Golden Gun, Roger Moore's second outing as James Bond (Roger Moore was the first), whisks our hero off to Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, and then the South China Sea in search of a solar energy weapon. After Goodnight shows Bond where Miss Anders is staying, she hopes to spend the evening with Bond, but 007 declines, as he has his meeting with Hai Fat. "[87], Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly argues that Scaramanga is the best villain of the Roger Moore James Bond films,[88] while listing Mary Goodnight among the worst Bond girls, saying that "Ekland may have had one of the series' best bikinis, but her dopey, doltish portrayal was a turnoff as much to filmgoers as to fans of Ian Fleming's novels". [50] The scene where Scaramanga's Matador flies was shot at Bovington Camp, with a model inspired by an actual car plane prototype. 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